Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Work
01/21/2022
Parenting as a public good
How many children should we be having? It’s a question that’s had slightly more airtime in recent months than usual.
01/27/2022
Where Immigrant Women, Usually Exploited by Fashion, Run the Show
How one Chicago cooperative is reverse-engineering apparel’s colonialist business model.
01/25/2022
Finally, a Desk for Working Parents
Wrangling small children on daily errands is a uniquely difficult task — one that’s made especially challenging by the fact that most American institutions have little more to offer parents and caregivers in the way of support than a pile of grimy plastic toys in a corner on the floor.
01/26/2022
The small cities and towns booming from remote work
The new world of remote jobs has small towns and cities exploding with growth as workers explore alternatives to big metropolitan areas.
01/21/2022
Opinion: The Brain Drain That Is Killing America’s Economy
Each spring I get antsy WhatsApp messages from friends across the U.S., as well as London, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
01/21/2022
Exclusive: Biden administration raises minimum wage for federal employees to $15
Federal agencies are being directed to raise the minimum wages for government employees to $15 an hour, according to new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management shared first with Axios.
01/17/2022
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s plan for class struggle
Martin Luther King, Jr. died in Memphis standing in solidarity with a sanitation workers’ strike. But at the time of his murder, he was planning something bigger for later in the year.
12/23/2021
Can four-day workweeks help women? More companies are trying it out.
For many women, flexibility could mean the difference between staying in a job or leaving it, experts say.
01/03/2022
Politics and Prose employees celebrate becoming D.C.’s first unionized bookstore
The workers of Politics and Prose have successfully unionized, becoming the first bookstore in D.C. to do so.
12/21/2021
Kellogg’s cereal workers approve contract, ending 11-week strike and averting job losses
Unionized Kellogg’s workers in four states have approved a new five-year contract, bringing a swift end to one of the longest-running strikes of 2021.
12/17/2021
Opinion: The case against “creating jobs”
The infrastructure legislation that Joe Biden signed earlier this fall is formally known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and it descends in some sense from the American Jobs Plan that the White House rolled out at the beginning of the year.
12/14/2021